Celery Glass

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Object Name: 
Celery Glass
Place Made: 
Ireland
Accession Number: 
50.2.105
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17 cm; Rim Diam: 13 cm; Foot Diam: 9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1825
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown and cut. Deep cylindrical bowl, spreading rim, applied circular foot with ground and polished pontil mark; cut decoration: deep swags, upper one finely ribbed, above graduated deep flutes; above swagging, narrow band of sharp diagonal ribs between wide horizontal ribs; rim, alternate fans and lunes, tops forming scalloped edge; band of fine rays around outer edge of foot.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Davis, Cecil, Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (1)

The Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning, 1868-1940
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1977-04 through 1977-10
Toledo Museum of Art 1977-11 through 1978-02

Publications (4)

The Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning 1868-1940 (1977) illustrated, pp. 12-13, 88, fig. 2, cat. #2; BIB# 28368
English, Scottish, and Irish Table Glass: from the sixteenth century to 1820 (1956) pl. 287; BIB# 25354
English, Scottish, and Irish Table Glass: from the sixteenth century to 1820 (1956) pl. 287; BIB# 19945
English & Irish Antique Glass: Steuben Collection illustrated, p. 12, center; BIB# 73086